Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-14
EI,OM WASHINGTON.

Tsneeisl Correspondence of the Aloyn. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, d. c.. May II, 1887.
The counsel for the Northern Pacific Rail
road had an interview with the Secretary of
the Interior this morning on the subject of
The Guilford Miller case. They informed
the Secretary what every reasonable man
knew before. that the railroad company, in
stead of wanting to dispossess any actual
settlers on their wild lands, were anxious
far them 10 retain their homesteads, as every
such settler attracted others, and the more
settlers, the more passengers and the more
freight.
The Virginia democratic association OF
this CITY, at their meeting last night, deter.
mined to help, to the extent of their power,
the Fairfax county democrats in the contest
thew are to have this month. At their
meeting next Friday night they will have
speaking and refreshments-meat as we'll as
drink
Five Virginians, ex-representatives Ba'
bour, Tucker and Cabell Major R. w.
Burke and Col. L. Q. Washington, met by
chance in the lobby of the Metropolitan
Hotel this morning. The majority of them
were still hopeful that the public debt OF
their State would be settled by the present
Legislature.
Justice Woods, of the T. S. Supreme
Court, who died to-day was native OF
Ohio, but was appointed from Georgia. His
most important decision was that which
sustained the plea Of the nconstitutionality
of the civil rights bill. Among those al
ready spoken Of for the vacancy are Attor-
ney General Garland and Representative
J. r. Tucker. The latter, when told this
morning that his pronounced States rights
ideas would initiate against his appoint.
ment, said he couldn't see how that could
be under democratic administration. It's
rumored this evening that the successor will
come from the Gulf States.
Col. Robert Beverly of Virginia, is in the
city to-day, en- route to Tennessee, to attend
the annual meeting of the agricultural asso-
citation of that State The Colonel is very
anxious that the public debt of his State
should be settled, and says that unless it ls,
the democratic party there will have up
hill work next6fall; but he is not at all san
guine that the present effort to settle that
debt will succeed.
The failure of the German prince TO visit
Washington is attributed in diplomatic cir
Giles here to the fact that though the dusky
queen of the Sandwich Islands was informed
that she would be received by the President,
no such information was Gent to him.
The statement made i'll the Canadian
Parliament by member of that body last
Thursday night, to the effect that if the U.
s. government shall attempt to enforce the
non.intercourse act, England will impose a
heavy duty on American grain, is the topic
of good deal of talk in official circles here
today
Il is thought TO day that the wife Of I5ena.
tor Gibson is dying. her family, while all
robust looking, seem TO be deficient in the
power to resist the attacks OF disease. Two
of her grown sisters died of malaria in
Rome, and brother, alao grown, succamb-
ed to a disease that rarely proves fatal.
Her sister, Mrs Kent. wife Of Linden Kent,
esq, formerly of Alexandria, has been in
bad health for some months past
Major Bev. Tucker, who has been laid up
at his rooms in the Metropolitan Hotel for
some time, turned out this morning and ac-
companied the forty miners" on their trip
to Marshall Hall.
f FOLSOM postmaster at Riverside, Charles
county, Md. has been removed, and Robert Mar
bury appointed in his place.